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Crohn Disease (cont.)

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Author: Senthil Nachimuthu, MD, BS, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine; Chief, Department of Medicine, Huey P Long Medical Center.

Coauthor(s): Paul Piccione, MD, Consulting Staff, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Lutheran Medical Center; Priyankha Balasundaram, MBBS, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.

Editors: Simmy Bank, MD, MB, ChB, Chair, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Long Island Jewish Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; BS Anand, MD, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Baylor University College of Medicine.

The Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America is having an interactive teleconference/webcast on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 entitled Progress In CD: An Update On The Advances In Crohn's Disease. Click here for more information or to sign up.


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Crohn disease is an idiopathic, chronic, transmural inflammatory process of the bowel that often leads to fibrosis and obstructive symptoms, which can affect any part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract from the mouth to the anus.

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